View of sailors on the ... Frame:natural

View of sailors on the ... Frame:naturalView of sailors on the deck of a dhow (sailboat) travelling through the Persian Gulf from Dubai to Bahrain Island. In the left foreground a man stands on the deck of a dhow holding a section of a long rolled sail. On the left a man steps over the sail beside a group of men tying the sail onto a wooden pole or yard. In the background the sea is choppy, with a few whitecaps. In the far left distance land is visible along the horizon. This image was

On the right Hamad

The sand they are crossing is bare and marked with small wave patterns

The ground behind them is dotted with sparse clumps of vegetation

Three-quarter length portrait of Salim bin Kabina

a desiccated tree grows in the sand

In the foreground are two boys

taken from the east

On the far right side of the creek one and two storey houses fill the Shindagha district

Behind them a dhow is moored close to shore

a large double masted dhow (sailboat) built in Kuwait

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger (right) and three other members of a hunting party

Each man is followed by one or two baggage camels